To:L. D. TROTSKY

Written:Written in September 1921Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Thewail about the lack of money is general and
universal. We could very well blow up. In all the localities
there is a feverish (they say) effort to sell everything, and
every imaginable thing is being offered for sale. Everyone
everywhere is howling. I don’t know what else can be
done and how. Perhaps you will personally go to see the
Preobrazhensky
Commission[1]or have a talk with him?

Hereis a small example: In October, Rukhimovich will
supply up to5 million poodsof coal from the small
lease-holders in the Donbas. How are we to pay them? Where is
the money to come from?

Weare late. The commercial tide is stronger than we
are. TheFinance Commissionand all of us are behindhand.
I have just sent over to Comrade Preobrazhensky your
note about the bills.

[1]ThePreobrazhensky Commission, a Finance Commission of the     

R.C.P.(B.) C.C. and the C.P.C., was set up on Lenin’s proposal          

soon after the Tenth Party Congress to work eat aspects of financial    

policy in connection with the switch to the New Economic                

Policy.